New York City: Dream (3 Star Hotel)

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Address: 210 w 55th st , New york 10019, United states
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Lonely Planet review

  • Robert Reid
  • Lonely Planet author
Certainly surreal, the Dream - opened in late 2004 - is a modern makeover of a one-time plain chain hotel. Its two bars - including a penthouse job overlooking Broadway - get the cocktail crowd giddy from late afternoon onwards.

The 220 rooms - including suites - feature blue lights shining from under the beds and from inside the glass-top desks, giving a nightclubby effect to the minimalist all-white rooms. They're not as luxurious chic as at first glance - and smoking rooms seem to retain the tobacco scent. But there's fruit on the pillows, internet connection at the desk and a plasma TV on the wall. The lobby's impact is probably bigger (at least more bizarre), with a two-story aquarium filled with Caribbean fish (it leads to the basement, where there are conference rooms and a spa) and a giant sculpture of Neptune, Lady Madonna and Catherine the Great (culled from a Russian restaurant in Hartford). All meals are served at the adjoining Sarafina restaurant overlooking Broadway.

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Check-in / Check-out Earliest check-in: 3:00 PM
Latest check-out time: 12:00 PM